Free Autism training

Free Autism training is available via the Autism Education Trust (AET), a not-for-profit organisation supported by the Department of Education.   

Warwickshire County Council is a training partner with AET and delivers quality assured training to make a difference to autistic pupils in our schools.  Making Sense of Autism training takes around 1.5 hours.  Once staff have completed this training, they can then access the Good Autism Practice module, providing guidance on processes and tools to support autistic pupils.  

We can now also offer an Anxiety Module, to help schools support autistic pupils to reduce and manage their anxiety, and an Exclusions Module to support the prevention of exclusions.  There are lots of free resources on the AET website to support with peer awareness, working with parents, evaluating practice to name just a few.   

Go to the website at https://www.autismeducationtrust.org.uk  to have a look.   

For more information and to book training in for your school please contact evegodwin@warwickshire.gov.uk   

Local Offer feedback form is now live

We want to make sure that our Local Offer continues to develop to meet the needs of families of children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) in Warwickshire. Our Local Offer webpages provide information for children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) and their families to help them find the right help and support in Warwickshire. 

To help us to achieve this, we now have a live feedback form for parent carers, young people and professionals to provide feedback on their experiences of our services. The new feedback form can be found here https://www.warwickshire.gov.uk/send  

The advantage of the live form is that you can provide feedback when you want to, to let us know what we are doing well or where we need to do better.  

All the feedback received will help us to learn and understand more about people’s experiences, so that we can develop shared solutions that work. It will also inform the work we are doing to develop SEND Services in Warwickshire, working towards the vision of becoming a Child Friendly County, where children and young people with SEND and their families feel heard, valued, and understood.  

The findings from the feedback will be shared with senior leaders in SEND, Social Care, Health partners and Warwickshire Parent Carer Voice. They will also contribute to the reporting to Ofsted, as well as providing updates to the parent carer community through our 'you said, we did' webpages - https://www.warwickshire.gov.uk/get-involved-say 

A huge thank you goes to Warwickshire Parent Carer Voice and professionals working in SEND for helping to create the form. Now the form is live, we would love to receive any feedback you would like to give on the services we provide. To have your say visit https://www.warwickshire.gov.uk/send or find the form directly using this link: https://www.warwickshire.gov.uk/sendfamilyfeedback